has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to
be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says:
chkexploit: can't find 'strings'
Any ideas?
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On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours. That's fine,
but I don't like them. I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find
a user-based way.
I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how? The only
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 11:16:35AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hamish Moffatt writes:
The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add
ne to your /etc/modules, and something like
options ne io=0x280 irq=10
I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it
On Mon, Dec 22, 1997 at 11:40:39AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours. That's fine,
but I don't like them. I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find
a user-based way.
I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how? The
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:01:31PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your help. I got Debian to see my NE1000 at 0x320 and
IRQ 5. The problem was that in the /etc/conf.modules file it said:
options ne io = 0x320 irq = 5
I changed it to:
options ne io=0x320 irq=5 (I just
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Ken Gaugler wrote:
I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and
of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can
disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up.
However, booting from a floppy using
George Bonser wrote:
One trick is NOT to use emergency mode.
The better way is to do:
mount -n -o rw,remount /
Tim
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I wrote:
I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at
irq 10. I had to move it to 2/9.
Hamish Moffatt writes:
Odd, because the excerpt I posted is straight out of the conf.modules
on the machine I'm using right now. /proc/interrupts confirms. It's a
plain old
To my knowledge those spaces did make it hang at boot. When I took the spaces
away, it didn't hang. Now, it didn't totally lock up, because when it hanged at
boot, all I had to do was hit CTRL-C and it skipped it and resumed booting.
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:01:31PM
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario Filipe writes:
Try looking for a core file on /usr. Sounds like something may have core
dumped.
I did (as root):
cd /usr
find . -name core
Just found this :
./src/linux/net/core
Hi,
can i mount the hd partitions used by linux to folders on dos/win95 (in a
similar way to mounting the msdos/vfat partitions from linux)?
Thanks
Rick
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is there a way to display text when the login prompt shows? For
instance, on my machine the hostname is chaos. When I boot, it says:
Debian GNU Linux 1.3 chaos tty1
chaos login:
How can I change it to say, for example, Welcome to Chaos.net!?
Also... How can you change what it says after you log
My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of
/var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for
a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the
root partition should be filled to capacity and I can't seem to find the
Not easily. Windows does not understand the ext2 format. It says not
formatted, would you like to format. Try this w/ an ext2 floppy. If
they are on separate machines samba can be used to link the two. Samba
translates unix/linux hd format into windows readable format. No client
needed, just
Hi,
Is there a boot floppy set which supports installation over a pcmcia
network card?
If not, how is the simplest way to do it?
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Just today I installed that source package on a Bo system and compiled a
kernel the Debian way. No error messages and everything seems to be
working fine.
Best,
Curt
Rick Macdonald wrote:
Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32)
with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or
Hi,
I'd like to know what is the entry 'outgoingfile' in the
/etc/suck/get-news.conf for?
What shall be the correct values for this entry? Thanks!
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Hi,
I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ...
Kinks.
Heres the latest ...
I upgrades the ncurses packages to :
ncurses3.0
ncurses3.4
which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when
I got the new Kernel source from ftp.kernel.org and untar'd
Look at the following files:
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/motd
There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it.
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On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
: Hi Folks.
:
: I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and
: of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can
: disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up.
:
: However, booting from a floppy using
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb
Why don't you move them into /tmp?
Careful, /tmp gets wiped at reboot. So if you want to make sure the files
stay around till you're done with them, keep them out of
Hi all,
Can some one suggest me a good place for info about noname motherboard
for alpha..?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all
thanks
Kusuma
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Recently I upgraded to unstable (Thanks to all who are working for this
project.) and all seams to work quite well so far. However concerning
the new bash- package I have a question. Before upgrading I had the
following lines in my ~/.inputrc file
\e[1~: beginning-of-line
\e[3~: delete-char
On one of my Debian boxes I hear the hard drive being accessed every five
seconds and it is really starting to bug me. This is so even when all
major applications are stopped and the box is off the network.
The culprit is update and the question is Why does the cache always
come up dirty?
As
matthew tebbens wrote:
After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message
when I try to talk with anyone:
[Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99).
Why ? What can I do to fix it
I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
Hi, All
there are new wave of cheap
i86 systems based on Cyrix
MediaGX chip with integrated
video and sound (and Ethernet in the future).
The price makes it quite attractive as
X
On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 04:30:53AM +0100, Peter Prohaska wrote:
Do you have the Net-3-HOWTO (some information) and the Nag (Network
Administration Guide). The second is from LDP and you can get it at sunsite.
Maybe we should package the LDP Books for Debian.
Good idea !!!
It´s
When I switched the servers around, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts which
had my server name with the old IP address. Took a whole day just to
find that ! :)
Thanks for the reply anyway !
Matthew
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
matthew tebbens wrote:
After switching my
My /etc/printcap looks like this:
lp|oki6e:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
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I've installed magicfilter and have this /etc/printcap setup:
lp|oki6e:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig:\__
:tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Shaleh wrote:
Not easily. Windows does not understand the ext2 format.
I have absolutely no idea where to find it or what it is called (I never
had need or desire to do so), but apparently there *is* a program that
allows you to read ext2 filesystems under Windows. I
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote:
My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of
/var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for
a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the
root partition should be
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, dpk wrote:
Look at the following files:
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/motd
There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it.
And also edit /etc/init.d/boot:
# Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted
automatically
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is a Postscript version of the Debian
package document!
Thanks!
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
The installation finished without an fsck, which would prevent
normal booting. I had encountered this problem in an earlier test, and
was not sure if I had made the correct choices in the dselect (S)elect
phase, so I re-ran the
Rick,
Check out ext2tool_1_1.zip from sunsite.unc.edu or
login.dknet.dk/pub/ct. It provides a collection of DOS
programs that allow you to read a Linux ext2 file system
from DOS.
--Bob
Rick wrote:
Hi,
can i mount the hd partitions used by linux to folders on dos/win95 (in a
similar way to
I hhave an exabyte 8505xl drive hooked up to my linux box.
It writes and reads using /dev/st0 fine but I have a number
of data tapes written on sun's and DEc Ultrix boxes taht
I need to read and can't be read trivially using /dev/st0.
Does anyone know or can point me to where I can find theh
Hi all!
I'm not a real u**x freak, and so I have a (probably very simple) question:
I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and
a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm
not sure, which of the five standard smail options I should
Damir J. Naden wrote:
G'day everybody --
I decided to invest into new computer, and since I already have two
SCSI-2 HD's (Quantum and IBM), I'd like to keep them. My current system
is VLB-based so I have to buy a new card for PCI-based pentium class
system. I am looking into choosing
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home
did not have
a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in
passwd file.
I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly
filesystem.
An ls -l indeed showed home as
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of this
Anthony Landreneau wrote:
My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of
/var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for
a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the
root partition should be filled to capacity
John Goerzen wrote:
At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of
machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc. We are
moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems
will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K
Hello,
I just noticed that my Debian Linux 2.0.32 box has some 'unreliable'
behaviour, some programs are crashing more and more often with the
well-known 'segmentation fault' message.
The messages in /var/log/kern.log are actually harmful, I think (I
stripped the time in the following log):
Hello,
I suspect an hardware problem, because all is working as expected if the
system remains several hours power-off; but after 15-30 minutes, the
program are crashing again.
My configuration is a Pentium 200, running Debian/Linux 2.0.32 with
latest hamm packages; I have another P200
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